Lyon Chiang, New York On New Year’s Eve, Project C and The Bridge, two foundations led by students, held their annual event at Sansing Elementary School (三興國小), a rural school in Chiayi County, Taiwan. The one-day program brought Taiwanese students studying abroad back to Taiwan to teach English and basketball to local children. The event was organized entirely by the students, who also secured funding from Chiayi’s town foundation to make it happen. The initiative was led by Lyon Chiang,

Two electric buses were sold for virtual pennies after 14 vehicles that once belonged to a bankrupt transport company were offered for auction in Taichung City today. The Taichung Branch of the Administrative Enforcement Agency of the Ministry of Justice reminded potential buyers of the danger of volatile batteries before holding the auction for electric buses that were seized from the beleaguered Sifang Electric Bus Company after the company went out of business in October 2023. The buses were what

Highway police reminded drivers to pay attention to the situation in front of their vehicle, and maintain a safe distance, after a light truck crashed into a maintenance vehicle before being hit by a car from behind on National Highway 1 today. According to Taiwan’s National Highway Police Bureau, a 47-year-old man, named Wu, was driving a light truck when he hit a highway maintenance anti-collision trailer in the fast lane of the southbound lanes in Miaoli County at around

A solar energy storage unit consisting of thousands of lithium batteries caught fire in the early hours of the morning after emitting smoke for more than 12 hours following a truck accident in Yunlin County yesterday, January 6. Yunlin County Fire Department received reports of a large truck overturning on a County Road 145B below the Huwei Interchange on National Highway One at around 1:00 pm , yesterday. The overturned truck was carrying solar power storage units, and white smoke

According to Chunghwa Telecom, four cores of the international submarine cable were damaged at a point off the coast at Yehliu, New Taipei City, at 7:45 am on January 3. Taiwan’s National Coast Guard Administration identified a Cameroon-registered cargo ship Shunxin 39 (MMSI677087200) as being suspected of being responsible for the incident. The ship was ordered to return to waters in the vicinity of the Port of Keelung to be investigated. Coast guard officers were not able to board the

Two people suffered injuries after a light airplane crashed shortly after take-off from an airfield in Pingtung County yesterday, Monday, December 9. Pingtung County Fire Department said they received reports that a light aircraft had crashed near an airfield in Gaoshu Township at 10:55 am. Six vehicles and 13 personnel were dispatched to deal with the incident. Firefighters found two people trapped in the wreckage of the aircraft. Both occupants were conscious. A 54-year-old female passenger suffered a head laceration

A woman was the first of several bystanders to step in and restrain a man, after he smashed a jewelry store window with a hammer, and began stuffing gold jewelry into a bag during a brazen daylight robbery in Taitung City, Monday. Surveillance camera footage of the incident showed a suspect smashing the display window of a jewelry store at the intersection of Zhonghua Road and Datong Road at around 9:45 am. As the man stuffed gold jewelry into a

Taiwan’s Central Weather Administration predicts that areas of northern and eastern Taiwan will experience extremely heavy rain from tonight, Wednesday, until Friday, November 1, as Typhoon Kong-rey approaches on a trajectory to make landfall on the east coast around midday tomorrow, Thursday. The CWA issued a land and maritime alert for Typhoon Kong-rey at 5:30 am. The initial land warning covers Taitung County and the Hengchun Peninsula, and is expected to expand in subsequent alerts as the storm gets closer

Nine electric buses were destroyed by a fire in a parking lot in Taichung City in the early hours of this morning, Monday, October 21. The Taichung City Fire Department received reports of buses on fire at a parking lot on Jinghe Street in Beitun District at around 2:00 am. A total of 21 fire trucks and 46 personnel were dispatched to battle the blaze. Firefighters said the fire was fierce due to lithium ion batteries. The fire was brought

A US Navy guided missile destroyer and a Canadian Navy frigate passed through the Taiwan Strait on a routine mission yesterday, Sunday, October 20, six days after a Chinese military drill which simulated a blockade of Taiwan. According to a press release by the US 7th Fleet, the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Higgens (DDG 76) and Royal Canadian Navy Halifax-class frigate HMCS Vancouver (FFH 331) conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit “through waters where high-seas freedom of navigation